Jobs Vacancy At British American Tobacco (www.bat.com)

Employer: British American Tobacco (www.bat.com)

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Process Leader

Job Number: 10036BR
Location: Lagos
Appointment Type: Permanent

The Company
British American Tobacco (www.bat.com) is a market leading, global organisation with a long, established history and a bright and dynamic future.
Thanks to our people we have continued to deliver growth and exceed expectations in an increasingly complex and challenging marketplace.

Our aim is to become the leading tobacco company in each of our markets by providing excellent products with confidence and responsibility expected of global consumer brands.

If you have the talent and motivation to help us succeed you’ll find we are equally committed to helping you reach your full potential too.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Process Leader

Job Description
The Process Leader is expected to develop the operating teams’ technical understanding and mastery of process control. He/She is the Centerline DMS, Changeover DMS, and Change Management DMS owner for the line(s).
The Process Lead owns the integrity of the Line Event Data System and is responsible for data analytics of line losses. He/She also act as the team’s expert in troubleshooting / problem solving.
A majority of the individual’s time will be spent on the operating floor working with the teams and building the capability of the people in their area.
Owns the Centerline Management system for the line(s) including:
Establish CL targets & limits for the equipment owned by the team
Ensuring all CL audits are completed at the proper frequency
Develop control strategies to enable operators to respond to out of control situations
Training team members on documentation needed when running out of CL
Investigating, validating & updating new CL standards to eliminate losses
Executing weekly Health Checks, identifying gaps in system, and implementing appropriate countermeasures
Owns the Changeover DMS for the line(s)
Establishing Changeover standards for all product SKU’s
Reviewing Changeover critiques and coaching shift teams to identify and implement improvement opportunities to achieve CO success criteria
Leading Rapid Changeover events to identify additional opportunities to reduce changeover time as required by business need
Executing weekly Health Checks
Owns the Change Management DMS & validation processes
Including process benchmarking & reapplication across processes, modules and plants

Loss Elimination:
Analyzes line data to identify and prioritize loss elimination opportunities including the creation of current state and future state loss trees utilizing tools such as loss allocation and S-shape
Participating in Line DDS process daily to set priorities and allocate resources, and report results for previous 24 hours:
CL & CO DMS’s
Top 3 stops and initial finding
Process Failures and initial findings
Using Reliability Engineering tools to drive Centerline DMS and loss elimination
Owns integrity of Line Event Data Systems (LEDS)

Troubleshooting & Problem Solving:
Leads root cause problem solving efforts on key chronic losses for the line(s)
Coaches teams to build capability in problem solving skills and formal tools, including but not limited to Initial Problem Solving, Unified Problem Solving, 6W2H, and 5 Why’s
Leads and builds the capability of team around process failures technical troubleshooting

Qualifications/Requirements
Essential Requirements:
University qualification
Minimum 2 years experience in an FMCG environment
Demonstrated self-motivated, personal leadership
Ability and commitment to drive change in the organization
Leadership skills, ability to lead a small project team
Interpersonal collaboration skills
Effective communication skills
Ability to present to small groups

Desirable Requirements:
Ability to work with data and information
Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills
Demonstrated ability to assimilate technical data to support recommendations
Basic problem solving skills
Familiarity with structured problem tools useful but not mandatory
Specific technical mastery useful but not mandatory

Application Closing Date
9th February, 2016.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidate should:
Click here to apply online